Uncle Bob's Top 5 Reasons Your iPhone Is More Camera Than You Can Handle

Happy Monday Folks!

Uncle Bob here, back to deliver your Monday dose of photography insight, straight from my brain to yours.

Your good ol' Uncle Bob was fooling around with his iPhone today, and it dawned on me that the iPhone is likely more camera than most folks can handle.

Here's why...

Reason #5 Your iPhone is more camera than you can handle...
You still don't have a clue how to use half those photo apps you downloaded off iTunes.

Reason #4 Your iPhone is more camera than you can handle...
You keep accidentally hitting the video switch on your iPhone and making movies when you meant to take a picture.

Reason #3 Your iPhone is more camera than you can handle...
You haven't figured out that you can turn your iPhone horizontal and take a horizontal photo. Duh!

Reason #2 Your iPhone is more camera than you can handle...
You may be the King of popping blowfish or shooting tanks on your iPhone, but you just can't seem to tap that shutter button at exactly the right moment that you wanted to take the photo. At least that's what you tell people when they ask why all your photos are of people's bums.

Reason #1 Your iPhone is more camera than you can handle...
Half your iPhone photos look like your finger, and you can't figure out why. Here's a hint... take your finger off the lens stupid!




See you next Monday,
Uncle Bob.

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iPortfolio... an excuse to buy an iPhone or an iPod Touch

If you're like me, and you don't already have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, here's yet another good reason you and I should have one. iPortfolio.

I made up the term, at least I think I did. As far as I know, and from what a quick googling of the term showed, there's no app or device name iPortfolio at this point, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have one. :)

One of the reasons I've been kicking around the idea of buying an iPod Touch (besides the fact that they're so freakin' cool) is to have an iPortfolio. An iPortfolio is a selection of your best work stored on your iPod Touch or iPhone so that you can quickly show a potential client, existing client, (or anybody else for that matter) at a moment's notice.

Consider these scenarios.

You're out and about and meet someone who needs some headshots done. You whip out your iPod Touch or iPhone and show them some of your best headshots.

You've just been introduced to a friend of a friend who's getting married soon. You whip out your iPod Touch or iPhone and blow them away with the beauty and elegance of your wedding portfolio.

You're out on a shoot and you're hitting a wall. You're subject isn't getting the shot you're trying to explain. You whip out your iPod Touch or iPhone and show them some samples that demonstrate what you're trying to do (might be your work, or it might be some inspirational stuff you've saved from another photog).

I've pretty much talked myself into one. You can blame me if I've talked you into one too. I will say that I'll likely be going with the iPod Touch as I just can't deal with the highway robbery of the iPhone service plans. My left arm is just too much to pay to surf the net with an iPhone, especially when I can do pretty much all the same stuff using an iPod Touch provided I've got WiFi access which is pretty much everywhere these days.